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Data gaps mean Indigenous incarceration rates may be even worse than we thought

  • Written by: Thalia Anthony, Associate Professor in Law, University of Technology Sydney

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called for a Royal Commission into abuse of youths in the Northern Territory corrections system after the ABC’s Four Corners program aired footage of children being hooded, shackled and teargassed at a Darwin juvenile detention centre.

Cape York Institute senior policy adviser Shireen Morris told Q&A...

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Asia’s ineffective diplomacy makes life difficult for Australia

  • Written by: Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
imageEPA/Nyein Chan Naing

For decades the polite fiction in East Asia has been that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been “in the driving seat” as far as regional diplomacy was concerned. Only the Southeast Asians could provide leadership in a region where historical animosities and rivalries made co-operation...

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CCTV: who can watch whom under the law?

  • Written by: Rick Sarre, Professor of Law, University of South Australia
imageDisturbing images such as this from the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre have shocked the nation and prompted a royal commission.AAP/Four Corners

In the past few days, CCTV footage has been at the centre of two major news stories.

The first, at the Northern Territory’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, showed the shocking treatment meted out to...

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How do you know you're not living in a computer simulation?

  • Written by: Laura D'Olimpio, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Australia
imageThere is no spoon. At least, not the way you think there is.Warner Bros

Consider this: right now, you are not where you think you are. In fact, you happen to be the subject of a science experiment being conducted by an evil genius.

Your brain has been expertly removed from your body and is being kept alive in a vat of nutrients that sits on a...

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  3. Is the tropical Indian Ocean to blame for southern Australia's wet winter?
  4. More scrutiny needed on commissions paid to life insurance advisers
  5. Business Briefing: what to do about low incomes
  6. What it means when kids walk on their toes
  7. Speaking with: Hannah Dahlen on pregnancy care
  8. Redetermining paradigmatic norms: is there any hope for academic writing?
  9. Evidence of NT detention centre abuse was there for all to see
  10. Backstories, Intimacies and the Ghostbusters Dilemma
  11. Is it back to the future for human origins science or just a case of science media misleading us again?
  12. Four Corners: why did the two previous investigations have no impact on changing this abuse?
  13. In a glass clearly: Singapore and Australia compared
  14. Morrison flags opposition to nominating Rudd for UN post
  15. Land carbon storage swelled in the Little Ice Age, which bodes ill for the future
  16. Can a corpulent Woolies discard its history and fight off Aldi?
  17. Violent video games and real violence: there's a link but it's not so simple
  18. Turkey coup: why have teachers and academics been targeted?
  19. Did sex drive mammal evolution? How one species can become two
  20. Reading French literature in a time of terror
  21. Four Corners: is using restraints akin to torture?
  22. Save or salvage: the real role administrators play in troubled businesses
  23. Will post-sentence detention of convicted terrorists make Australia any safer?
  24. The power of rewards and why we seek them out
  25. Australia is missing out on tax revenue from gas projects
  26. Is hip dysplasia in my newborn something to worry about?
  27. Who should be responsible for brain injuries in sport?
  28. Academics do want to engage with business, but need more support
  29. Suspended reality: the ins and outs of Rio's Olympic bubble
  30. Should artists pay their taxes in art?
  31. Has Netflix's campaign to block VPN resulted in slower subscriber growth?
  32. Ditching Logan's public-private regeneration sets Queensland back on social and affordable housing
  33. A new twist on an old fairytale as a daughter dances away from the patriarchy
  34. Should Russian athletes really be banned from competing in the Rio Olympics?
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  36. Health Check: what your pee and poo colour says about your health
  37. Welcome to Lab 2.0 where computers replace experimental science
  38. Global journalism needs global ethics
  39. Let's talk about the family home ... and its exemption from the pension means test
  40. South Australia's electricity price woes are more due to gas than wind
  41. 'You'll need my fingerprint': are police allowed to search your phone?
  42. Hubble explores the Final Frontier
  43. Wealth inequality shows superannuation changes are overdue
  44. Five ways the Coalition can get innovation back on track
  45. We can't see the war for the memorials: balancing education and commemoration
  46. Teaching phonics skills alongside reading raises literacy achievement among Indigenous children
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